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James Foster has taken some video of a talk he gave at Smalltalks 2009 last month, chopped it into segments, and posted the results to YouTube. What did that give him? A six part introduction to Gemstone series , in easy to consume pieces. Technorati Tags: gemstone , smalltalk
In almost every IT project I’ve worked on, we wrote an authentication system for the application we were building. User passwords were stored in the application database (encrypted or not). I don’t think that’s good for the users. We should be asking people to remember less passwords, not more.
Sales of iPhone make no sense. Top searches on Yahoo include WWE and Michael Jackson. AT&T customer satisfaction the worst. Nokia sues vendors! Psystar back in the news. Cripes. DARPA to test social media . Odd play involved. Kindle sold 550,000 . Waterloo, Iowa gets the fastest Internet speed . Brought to you by Lifelock. Protect your ...
If you happen to spot a red, eight-foot weather balloon along a roadway or in a "readily accessible" location this Saturday, you might be on the way to collecting a cool forty grand of prize money from the Pentagon.
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Tim Bray shares his conclusions about Clojure . To get your juices going: He claims "It’s the Best Lisp Ever"! (And that tail call optimization is a red herring.) I have been contemplating a Clojure department for awhile now, but heck, we may be too far behind the curve by now...
Jean Russel and I just posted the first of many conversations we area planning to explore, Identity, Reputation, and Currencies.
Google made a huge splash when it announced its plans for the Chrome operating system, a web-centric OS where essentially everything is run through a web browser. One great promise of Google’s Chrome OS is the arrival of low-cost, lightweight hardware, since most of the storage and other data handling is done in the cloud. Perhaps that 100- ...
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Goodbye, Google Gears
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Yesterday, I wrote about the almost-here beta of Google's Chrome browser for OS X, and mentioned that it doesn't support Google's Gears technology for making Web services such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Remember the Milk work without the Web. Turns out the bad news may have less to do with Chrome and more to do with Gears.
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Soft Kill of Gears?
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Chrome for OS X doesn't have Gears support, which led Harry McCracken to this quote from Google: "We are excited that much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and geolocation APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, and see that as the logical next step for developers ...
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Today we’re releasing the Kynetx Developer Exchange. This is a forum, based on the StackExchange service that is the same code that runs StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser sites. The functionality is excellent and we’re hoping that it provides a fruitful place for developers to interact with Kynetx programmers and each other.
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas.
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In India: Villager takes 14 years to dig tunnel through mountain . An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain so that his neighbours could reach nearby fields and he could park his truck outside his home. Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in eastern Bihar state, carved a 10m-long, 4m-wide ...
While many developers believe that opening up access to user emails may corrupt the Facebook Platform ecosystem, the company appears to be moving forward with the transition. Dan Peguine of HonestyBox forwarded us a screenshot last week of a prompt which asks the user to offer their email to the application developer (pictured below). While this ...
SEARCHSECURITY (UK) - Single Sign-On System Removes Password Chaos at East Kent NHS Trust
Richard Brown lives in Texas, and makes banjos from local wood. He also makes a cool cactus bridge . Made of select quarter sawn mesquite with Texas ebony cap, an innovative and artful design with five points of contact to the head providing superior balance and tone. A study by Texas A&M determined that mesquite is possibly the most stable wood ...
1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)
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She’s a complete nutcase, yet probably parts of what she says is true.
War President to Marines..Get Thee to Afghanistan, By Christmas!
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
I see that Verizon has changed their terms of service for FIOS to include this beauty of a violation: post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites Just about every thread longer than 1 message I've ever seen on blogs, forums, irc channels, Facebook (etc, etc) is thus a violation. I guess that's one way to ...
A sign of the times: Some toy drives check immigration status . They don't claim to know who's been naughty or nice, but some Houston charities are asking whether children are in the country legally before giving them toys. In a year when more families than ever have asked for help, several programs providing Christmas gifts for needy children ...
I hope everyone in the U.S. had a good Thanksgiving holiday, and I wish everyone globally the best of holiday seasons. I have been speaking to a lot of companies (something this job fortunately gives me the opportunity to do) regarding the topic of entitlement management again, mainly because they bring the topic up. Some of those discussions ...
I'm doing a self-paced ADF 11g training class. And I wanted to use version control to make it easier to recover from mistakes. While I have been playing with GIT - I wanted to use Subversion since it has native support in JDeveloper.
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